Swedish, Russian, In Swedish with English subtitles
Imprint:
New York, NY : Kino on Video, 2000.
Format:
Video
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title Variation:
Title on disc: Sacrifice
Russian title: Zhertvoprinoshenie
Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986.
A foreign film (Sweden).
Includes documentary film Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky = Zapechatlennoe vremia = Zhertvoprinoshenie / director and screenwriter, Michal Leszczylowski ; produced by Lisbet Gabrielson (1988, col., 101 min.) This film shows the director Andre Tarkovsky in action as he makes "The sacrifice." In Swedish and Russian with English subtitles.
"K149DVD."--Container.
Production Credits:
Cinematography, Sven Nykvist.
Participant:
Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall.
Summary:
A dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. When a middle aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Seas witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind.